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Originally Posted by Shane R
What sort of music are you FLAC aficionados listening to?
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For the music I rip from my own CDs, I use Red Book FLAC (16 bit/44.1 khz). For me, that is good enough since I listen to my music through my Walkman with okay headphones (although I'm always looking for better headphones).
Plus, for me the higher cost and larger file size of Hi-Rez FLACs (those above the Red Book FLAC standard) offers no advantage since I doubt I'd be able to hear the difference. I base that on my own ABXY testing of Red Book FLAC against the highest quality LAME-encoded MP3s where I could not tell which sounded better. In some cases I could sense a slight difference but I could not tell which was which.